Talk:National Technical Institute for the Deaf

First "technological college" in the world for deaf/HoH?

I'm not sure what exactly the definition of a "technological college" is — see college for different uses of the term college around the world. I thought it must be a US-specific term (making the claim to being the "biggest in the world" a little redundant!) but if it means an institution offering vocational education then it's certainly not the first in the world either. Can someone please clarify for readers outside the US?

On another note, adjectives like "excellent" and "outstanding" have more place in a brochure than an encyclopedia. ntennis 07:53, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I believe "technological" is meant in the sense of "not liberal-arts". Galluadet is considered a liberal arts university, for example. Likewise, RIT itself is not a liberal-arts university, even though it has a College of Liberal Arts. I'm not sure how the distinction is made, but it exists.

I also agree that the whole article sounds like it was copied from a brochure or, more likely, the web site. Powers 14:47, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Citations needed

Togamoos, you offered no explanation for why you removed the citeneeded tags, so I've replaced them and I'll explain why, one by one. The article makes the following claims:

• RIT is internationally recognized as a leader in computing, engineering, imaging technology, fine and applied arts. "Recognized as a leader" is a weasel worded claim and can be improved by stating who recognizes RIT as a leader. This will make the fact verifiable. Who recognizes RIT as a leader? Its students? Its faculty? A government? A magazine?
• U.S. News and World Report has consistently ranked RIT among the nation’s leading comprehensive universities. Fair enough, at least this claim can be verified. But not without a date or issue cited. Readers of an encyclopedia should not be expected to search through decades of back issues to verify or learn more. In fact, according to U.S. New and World Report: 2006 National Universities: Top Schools rankings, RIT doesn't rank within the top 120. So I've removed that claim for now. "Consistently ranked" implies every year or at least regularly over a significant period of time. Perhaps you can help with a cite here and replace the claim.
• RIT is internationally recognized as a leader in computing, engineering, imaging technology, fine and applied arts. This is weasel-worded, as the first point is. Recognized by who and what nations? This fact needs to be verifiable, according to WP policy.
• RIT has the largest staff of professional sign language interpreters of any college program in the country and is one of the most accessible college communities in the world. There are two claims there and I can't find either backed up by a primary source using either http://www.ntid.rit.edu itself or Google.

Thanks for listening. I'm not disagreeing with any of these claims, but if we don't keep articles well-sourced from reliable and verifiable primary sources then Wikipedia loses its value. --Ds13 22:31, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

NTID Marketing

As noted in my last edit of this page, I removed a lot that was clearly just marketing for NTID by NTID. For further editors of this page, note that RIT IP addresses (and therefore NTID IPs) start with 129.21.

Copyright violation

I removed text added by Togamoos (talk · contribs) that was a clear copyright violation from [1]. If Togamoos has permission to copy this information, we'll need to see evidence of that, per WP:COPY. Powers 13:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Link to Theatre shadowing

I just reverted an edit that added Theatre shadowing to the See also section. I'm not opposed to having a link to this (orphaned!) article in the NTID article, because there's some text in Theatre shadowing that mentions special reverse-shadowing practices at NTID (but alas, it's unsourced).

If the fact can be sourced and discussion of it incorporated in the NTID article text, that'd be great! I can't do it rn though, because I'm trying to finish finals. >_> - - mathmitch7 ^{(talk/contribs)} 22:20, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

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